Visual Resources: An On-Line Guide for FYSP-175 ("How Images Matter")
MAJOR IMAGE COLLECTIONS
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library: A key collection from the Library of Congress, opening search resource for the "Prints and Photographs Division" below.
Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress: On-Line Search of Images: One of the richest photographic archive is at the Library of Congress. At the present time, it offers a very considerable number of on-line images from many collections. For some, however, the images available outside of the Library of Congress (LC) are only available in thumbnails. The Library of Congress collections are marked LC-and the abbreviation of the collection.
PHOTOGRAPHY
ARCHIVES OF THE WEST: Photographs and some art work used in PBS series, "The West"
BAIN
COLLECTION [LC-ggbain] -- about 1,200 photographs (records being added)
ca. 1900-1931 (bulk). Photos produced and gathered by George Grantham Bain for
his news photo service, including portraits and worldwide news events, but with
special emphasis on life in New York City. Includes images in the Bain collection
for which copy photos have been produced. All images display inside and outside
LC.
THE BAY OF PIGS (PLAYA GIRON): The Cuban Perspective
CARPENTER COLLECTION [LC-ffcarp] -- about 1,600 photographs (records being added) ca. 1860-1934, bulk 1880-1924. Photos produced and gathered by Frank and Frances Carpenter to illustrate popular writings on world geography.
DETROIT PUBLISHING COMPANY [LC-detr] -- About 28,200 glass negatives, glass transparencies, and color photomechanical prints. 1885-1930. Chiefly scenes in U.S. and Latin America, including landscapes, cityscapes, historic sites, architecture, vessels, industry, etc.
JOHNSTON (FRANCES BENJAMIN) COLLECTION [LC-fbj] -- About 1,200 photographs (records being added) ca. 1850-1949, bulk 1897-1927. Photos produced and gathered by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the course of her career as a photojournalist, portrait and architectural photographer.
MANUEL R. BUSTAMANTE PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION (CUBA) (University of Miami)
STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES OF WAR (Jim Zwick: Stereoscopic photographic images of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars)
THE KODAK VS. THE KING (Jim Zwick: Photographic images used to challenge King Leopold's hold on the Congo)
WARS IN CENTRAL AMERICA:
JOHN HOAGLAND (Hoagland was killed taking pictures in El Salvador. His camera has provided some of the iconic shots of that war. Included on this site are the last six frames in his camera when he was shot.)
EL SALVADOR (Photography by Adam Kufeld)
NICARAGUA (Photography by Susan Meiselas)
Art Work & Photography of the Western Frontier
GEORGE CATLIN (1796-1872)
George Catlin, National Gallery of Art
George Catlin, The Illustrating Traveler (North American Indian Portfolio), Yale University Library
EDWARD CURTIS (1868-1952)
Edward S. Curtis Collection, Library of Congress
THOMAS MORAN (1837-1926)
Thomas Moran (National Park Service Exibition)
TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN (1840-1882)
Timothy O'Sullivan images (Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology)
Timothy O'Sullivan images (Getty Museum of Art)
Frederick Remington (1861-1909)
Remington's work at the Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art
The Fall of the Cowboy (Amon Carter Museum; click on bottom-right hand column thumbnail)
Masterworks by Frederick Remington (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) [Requires "Zoomify"]
GENERAL
Romancing the American Frontier (Detroit Institute of the Arts)
Set of images for UC-San Diego Ethnic Studies Course on Native Americans [25 images, including some of the iconic images by John Gast ("American Progress"), Henry Farney ("The Captive") and others. Quality not good, but you can search for better quality images through Google]
ARCHIVES OF THE WEST: Photographs and some art work used in PBS series, "The West"
Other Historical Imagery (prints, cartoons, illustrations)
AMERICAN
POLITICAL PRINTS [LC-app] -- About 800 prints.
ca. 1766-1876. Political satires, allegories, campaign banners, certificates,
and broadsides printed in the US.
AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS (1776-1876: Harper's Weekly)
CABINET OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION [LC-cai] -- About 4,000 drawings and prints, 1850-1930. Book and magazine illustrations and some graphic designs. Most images display (images display only as thumbnails outside LC).
CARTOON
DRAWINGS [LC-cd] -- About 9,400 drawings.
1794-1994. Political, editorial, and humorous cartoons and caricatures by about
500 artists. Many images display (images display only as thumbnails outside
LC).
CARTOON
DRAWINGS (SWANN COLLECTION OF CARICATURE AND CARTOON) [LC-swan] --About
2,000 drawings. 1780-1975 (chiefly 1930's). Cartoons, caricatures, and illustrations
by various artists. (Note: Some original items are undergoing conservation and
are unavailable for viewing.) Some images display (images display only as thumbnails
outside LC).
CARTOONS OF OUR WAR WITH SPAIN (Charles Nelan)
CARTOONS OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR [Charles L. ("Bart") Bartholomew]
THE ELIAN GONZALEZ EPISODE IN CARTOONS
IMMIGRANT AND ETHNIC AMERICA (Harper's Weekly)
LIFE DURING WARTIME: CARTOONS FROM LIFE MAGAZINE, 1895-1900 (Jim Zwick; important collection of Spanish-American-Cuban War cartoons)
POLITICAL
CARICATURES OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM, CIRCA 1875-1905
POLITICAL CARTOONS AND CARTOONISTS (Jim Zwick; good collection but the pop-ups are annoying)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE IMAGE OF EMPIRE (Jim Zwick)
UNCLE SAM'S WORLD IN POLITICAL CARTOONS (Jim Zwick, cartoons showing U.S. acquisitions abroad from the annexations of 1898 to the annexation of the Danish West Indies, now the U.S. Virgin Islands, during World War I)
WAR AND EMPIRE IN FOURTH OF JULY CARTOONS (Jim Zwick, 1898-1902)
WILLIAM
MC KINLEY IN POLITICAL CARTOONS (K. Austin Kerr)
Advertising
AD*ACCESS (Duke: images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955; five major areas covered: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II)
ADVERTISEMENTS FROM THE SPANISH-AMERICAN AND PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WARS (Jim Zwick)
EMERGENCE OF ADVERTISING IN AMERICA (Duke)
HARP WEEK (19th Century Advertising in Harper's Weekly)
HISTORY OF ADVERTISING TRUST (UK: Important archive of British advertising)